When you thought stealth games genre has died out and the best gaming industry can do is medicore casual "hiding" games ending in bloodbath after 2nd failed try, Cyanide Studio manages to stay true to classic stealth shenanigans.

Mechanic is simple and effective, strict but fair. No bugs here- no spotting through walls or 6th sense. Although dwarfs can sniff you in later levels it is designed in much better way than elven smell in the prequel. You also get a light and sound markers giving you feedback on your exposition and noise making allowing in much better view of your exposition.

You have much more skills at your disposal accompanied with more gadgets to help you lurk around allowing you to adjust your gameplay to your likings. You can lay waste to many enemies in various different ways as long as you remain undetected. When your cover is blown you have little means of fighting back and the best chance is to run so no superhero endless parry nonsense here.

Styx is egoistical and cynical and is not short in cracking wise. He has good amount of humor and swears are in perfect amount. I really detest recent trends of determining coolness of the character by putting as many curses as possible in one line.

Level design is literally mind-blowing. One level alone has more revisit value than most of the whole games of competitors. Also bigger budget is showing and all short backs of the prequel are polished and improved. Climbing is repaired, no clinks, no bugs. Really solid performance.

It is the best stealth focused game right now not because it lacks competition (although it does) but it is a piece of solid work with good focus and involving game-flow with no annoying technical cracks that usually these games suffer from.

P.S. Hideout theme from Master of Shadows has a comeback so now you have to buy it.